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Here's the next bit. * * * "Car. Turn of the 21st century model – family, cheap, roomy, French." A Citroen Picasso appeared in his mind's eye, as real as REM images, hard to the touch. Physically it felt real. But Jon knew it was an illusion. Sophisticated, but a slick hallucination. He...

Hi, I;ve another story for you. This is an extract but please criticise it as much as you like! I need the help! --- "Please fasten your seatbelt! I'm your host for this morning's simulated drive. And, as you know, you could fit my entire hard drive memory onto a pin-prick a thousand...

As my exctract from my work in progress The Oligarchicon has met with such approval on this board (thanks!!), I thought I should display my expanded range which is not only speculative phantasy but also speculative science phiction. Here is some of The Epicryptoverumicon, a piece of juvenilia...

Litany, I hope you've got a good lawyer, because this sort of thing just isn't on. What a 'coincidence' that your extracts should bear such a resemblance to the pieces from my Oligarchicon which were only recently posted here! Plagiarism is frowned upon at The Book Forum. Right guys...

Really? OK. This scene comes just before the gambling den one and features the characters Krissie and Alamao.

No. Here's the latest addition. I think I am really cranking up the tension and the pathos here. Seriously, becoming a published author is my dream. One day it might happen - with all your help! Please comment on my work.

Well done for getting to the fifth word before making any spelling mistakes, dzmancha! This makes your piece technically fifteen times better than laboi22's, as he spelled the very first word in his posts - prologue - three different ways without ever hitting on the right spelling. Now what...

Thanks for asking, Terry. The Oligarchicon (you heard it here first!) is a 3,000-page epic which comprise's one thousand pages of the social, historical and social background to the Blaart star system where the 'action' is set; one thousand pages of rollicking story; and one-thousand pages of...

That's amazing! My wishlist on Amazon is just about to increase by about 1 title after reading your top 100 list - only 1 because the other 99 I've read already and they would be in my top 100 also!

Hello Toadal, yes I know of Sean Wright. He is one of the most interesting speculative fictioneers in the East Anglia region today. His website is actually a spoof, but he has a great fansite. http://jessejameson.blogspot.com If you like his stuff you may like mine! I have posted a...

Hi, just dipping my toe in! This is the opening of Chapter -1, the preprologue of my work-in-progress The Oligarchicon. However it's not the first chapter. --- In a gambling hall deep in the seedy district of Crustacean, Huth stared at Trels over the top of his cards, attempting to...

Methinks some of you may have been had... It would appear that perchance satire is not dead yet...